Also known as: Bayan ng Angono
Angono is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 135K (PSA 2024 census), 10 barangays, land area 26.22 km².
Angono is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Angono is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Angono had 134,975 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Angono covers 26.22 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Angono has 10 barangays.
Angono is officially recognized as the “Art Capital of the Philippines” — home town of National Artists Carlos “Botong” Francisco (visual arts) and Lucio San Pedro (music), and host every November to the Higantes Festival, where giant papier-mâché figures parade through the lakeshore streets. On the northern edge of town, the Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs — the oldest known work of art in the Philippines and a National Cultural Treasure — sit inside a protected rock-shelter that straddles the Angono/Binangonan boundary. That heritage identity is also Angono's central planning tension: a lakeshore town of 130,494 people (2020) squeezed into 26.22 km², absorbing the same Metro Manila-adjacent residential growth pressure as its neighbors, while trying to keep its arts-district character (galleries, ateliers, heritage houses along the old poblacion streets) from being crowded out by ordinary subdivision infill. Laguna de Bay lakeshore flooding and the petroglyphs site's buffer-zone protection are the two recurring items any CLUP update for Angono has to reconcile against normal residential and commercial zoning demand.
Key industries: Visual and folk arts, Festival tourism, Fishing (Laguna de Bay), Retail
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